Then, when you combine this with the fact that Medicaid serves 53 million people with an annual budget of $329 billion, means that rising costs is severely affecting this program. ("Medicaid Reform," 2005) the inflexibility of this program has contr Continue Reading...
They offer the same flexibility and costs saving available to people at larger organizations. According an article published by Physicians Care, "When we set up a self-funded plan for a smaller employer, we help them select the appropriate level of Continue Reading...
One of the recommended responses to the condition of diversification in some reasons is the facilitation of high healthcare worker morale and the embrace of workplace diversity. This resolution should be carried out not through conscious racialist Continue Reading...
" (May 2008, p. 779) it is actually surprtising that there are as many people in th world as there are who believe that the poor are those who do not work, given the current state of the economy and that fact that the majority of people who seek heal Continue Reading...
Combined with the widespread entry of women into the labor force, an aging population, and minimal assistance for high quality long-term care at the end of life, these economic and social conditions raise a set of difficult policy questions for heal Continue Reading...
In addition, contracts for supplies or other services takes 6 to 9 months to establish. He says that a lot of companies won't even bid on VA contracts because of this. This results in higher costs, with the exception of pharmaceuticals, because the Continue Reading...
Gene Rogers who served as the medical director for Sacramento County's Indigent Services program for the most of the last decade who has "waged a long fight against the central California country's practice of providing non-emergency medical care to Continue Reading...
It was good news. But it was bad news to healthcare providers in areas with large populations of alien immigrants. The benefits did not link up with the funding employers or the government to pay for the benefits. It did not offer enough incentives Continue Reading...
0, 4.0, and 4.5 percentage points in FYs 1982, 1983, and 1984, respectively, for States whose growth exceeded certain targets, OBRA-81 also reduced eligibility for welfare benefits, thus making it harder for poor families to qualify for Medicaid (Kle Continue Reading...
There has now been established an unmistakable link between a patient's overall health and the ability to understand and act on medical instructions and health information. Addressing the link between health literacy and health outcomes challenges Continue Reading...
On the other hand, child malnutrition is becoming worse, due to staff cutbacks from health sector reform. Healthcare workers are in the best position to develop innovative and quality improvements. They also can guide the effective or wasteful appli Continue Reading...
" (MediLexicon International, Ltd., 2006). The PCIP was formed from the recognition that high costs and low quality inherent in the Healthcare system of the U.S. is largely due to a system that is antiquated and fragmented (DOHMH, 2006a). The inabil Continue Reading...
S. society (Miles, 2000) IV. Effects on Commercial and Industrial Aspects in Society In a report entitled "Trading Health Services Across Borders: (GATS), Markets, and Caveats written is that "The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is th Continue Reading...
Barak concludes by suggesting that the issue and concept of diversity take on a "special urgency" in human service healthcare organizations among the organization as a whole and staff, and that the organization review its quality of service and comm Continue Reading...
United States and National Healthcare Insurance: A Winning Proposition? Physical health and well-being are among the most basic needs and desires of human beings. We all hope that neither ourselves nor our families will ever be the victims of sick Continue Reading...
Managed Care Organzations. (MCO) Since the increasing costs of health care insurance became a significant issue in the profitability of health care provider in the 1980's health care provider, insurance companies, doctors and hospitals have searched Continue Reading...
Controlling Violent Health Care Patients and Employees This is a paper discussion on the identification and control of violence amongst health care patients and employees. It has 11 sources. An Introduction to Violence Violence has become a commo Continue Reading...
Medical Care Perhaps the single biggest blessing that any individual can thank his or her stars for is a sense of physiological and psychological well being that allows for the optimal utilization of one's lifetime. In the same vein, all humankind c Continue Reading...
Diabetes Foot Care Qualitative Research Critique: Diabetes Foot Care Sue Flood (2009) saw a need to examine the nurse-patient interaction in relation to diabetes foot care outcomes, in part because at least one health care organization (Agency for Continue Reading...
Policy Process: on LONG-TERM CARE Part II Policy Process 3292 Health care and nursing is more complex today than ever before. New technologies and ever-growing population demands a much more disciplined and organized health care industry (Abood, 20 Continue Reading...
Communication in the Health Care Environment: Effective communication between patients, physicians, family members, and nurses is one of the most important elements in the delivery of care. Actually, the lack of effective communication in the health Continue Reading...
Disaster Management The Role of Healthcare in Disaster Management Events such as the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001 and the tragically mismanaged response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 would demonstrate the need for greater disaster prepa Continue Reading...
" (Federal Register, 2010) Incentive Payments Section 401(c) of the HITECH Act is reported to add an incentive for payments to specific Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations for their affiliated EPs who meaningfully use certified HER technology and Continue Reading...
Community health needs assessment is a process that illustrates the health status of the local people, facilitates the identification of the main risk factors that cause ill health among these people, and promotes the determination of the necessary a Continue Reading...
Smart Card Health Role in Rational Use of Medicines The objective of this study is to examine the role of smart cared in health and their role in the rational use of medicines. Smart cards are very small and very secure and serve to protect patient Continue Reading...
Mortality prevention is certainly an area where the strongest interventions are most justified. Bluegrass Hospital Quality of Care Industry Comparison Quality of Care Standards ("Patient safety and," 2011) 1. Based upon the report card alone, Continue Reading...
This idea is supported by a Journal of the American Medical Association. The study found that 60% of the teens surveyed said that their parents knew they were using a clinic for sexual health services. These statistics act as a counterweight to the Continue Reading...
These different individuals can become a part of a committee that will work with: staff members at dealing with these problems. Over the course of time, this will provide specific insights about how to: effectively tackle these issues and a time fra Continue Reading...
Smoking and Health Changes in Society The rising cost of healthcare continues to be one of the most important contemporary social issues in the United States. Among other things, a focus on the importance of preventative medicine will be necessary t Continue Reading...
Public health emergency preparedness and response. Public health: Emergency preparedness and responses While all areas of the nation should periodically engage in risk assessment, not all locations are equally vulnerable to different types of attac Continue Reading...
student, degree Health Adminstration. I worked a health care staffing supervisor 10 years. personal experience incorporated paper fact husband sickle cell anemia I cared 20 years. I have always been drawn to helping people, both in my life and in m Continue Reading...
3. How the quality of service changed and why? The quality of service increased significantly as all practices areas of the hospital better aligned to the cultural norms, values and needs of each ethnic population represented by the segments serve Continue Reading...
Therefore, developing a set of measurable population health objectives will aid in the establishment of clear priorities and objectives. Once those priorities are set, the team of healthcare professionals can begin the task of implementing the progr Continue Reading...
, income is quite often decreased and patient care sometimes adversely impacted due to time constraints, the need to hire a dedicated insurance person for the office, and the innumerable and sometimes counter-productive, forms and questions the HMOs Continue Reading...
Palliative Care/Gibbs DESCRIPTION Palliative care is comfort care for an individual who is no longer in need or desires life saving care. Most palliative care is offered near the end of life. Palliative care often takes a more holistic approach whe Continue Reading...
Biomedicine Healthcare system in USA The health care system in the United States of America is a well established and structured system that aims at offering services to American citizens for the treatment and prevention of diseases, further more t Continue Reading...
The study was reported as qualitative and to have been conducted by the 'Australian National Health and Medical Research Council' research study. It is stated as follows of the study: "The nursing insights indicate that an understanding of end-of-l Continue Reading...
The Short-Term Rehabilitation Unit at Palm Gardens has 40 beds, rooms with private and semi-private accommodations, and a gymnasium. The rooms all have "large windows" so patients can enjoy plenty of natural light. The rooms are equipped with telev Continue Reading...
Its ability to tax and spend can be used to indirectly influence state, local, and volunteer organizations' policies by controlling the purse strings (Lister, 2005). Occupational safety and food and drug research is also managed by federal agencies Continue Reading...
Thus, Congress and whoever drafts the plan, really has to figure out how to show the health care interests the reform will help, rather than hinder, their profits, or it simply will not occur. The health care plan must also be feasible and able to Continue Reading...
